Each year, thousands of men and women people from around the globe flock to the Himalaya and the Karakoram in order to climb the world’s tallest mountains. Despite being aware of a fatality rate as high as 29% (depending on the mountain), amateur climbers are willing to hand over $65K-$150K to “professional” guiding services to hopefully get them to the summit and back in one piece. While storms and avalanches at these elevations cannot be controlled, overcrowding can. Human traffic jams leading...
May 06, 2023•7 min•Ep. 56
Continuing on our baseball theme – here is a replay of an audience fav from 2021 featuring series co-founder, Kassia. One of the greatest sports conspiracies in history! 8 key players of the White Sox, including the legendary ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, deliberately throw the championship in exchange for Mob bribes. Your fearless hosts take you deep behind this ambitious treachery. Was Shoeless Joe really guilty? Kassia and her partner Dylan have an ongoing pod called “Unburied Books”: https://apple...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 55
NYC’s favorite baseball commentators are back to prognosticate about the new season, help us understand the flurry of new MLB rules, and cause tears of laughter among listeners. Pour yourself a cold beer, grab a hot dog, retract your tray table – and buckle up for fun! Check out the video version of this episode on the Thad Halcli Media You Tube channel: https://youtu.be/heakv3fDPcc Hilarious!!! If you wish to reach Mets Mob member (and multi-year NYC Super Lawyer), David Grover, for personal in...
Apr 06, 2023•50 min•Ep. 54
As a warm-up to Major League Baseball’s OPENING DAY we wanted to re-share his extremely popular 2 part cold open from last year. Remember last year (2022) at this time? The baseball owners had “locked out” the players from all parks and negotiations on a new labor contract had reached a standstill. Our frequent guests, the beloved New York City trio – the METS MOB – were forced to take matters into their own hands by KIDNAPPING the Commissioner of MLB Baseball. As a result, the owners finally ca...
Mar 28, 2023•9 min•Ep. 53
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And your friends at “Scandal Sheet” are shining their investigative flashlight on America’s most beloved “non-profit” sales event. Our co-host ELLIE, a Girl Scout from Kindergarten to High School senior, rose to the highest rank in the GSA organization. Now a millennial young woman, Ellie looks back at her decade+ experiences and shares a CANDID insider view on the 3 mo/year $800 million dollar cookie industrial complex. Are we a nation of health hypocrites? BTW, W...
Mar 12, 2023•44 min•Ep. 52
You know what I’m talking about. It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. And your friends at “Scandal Sheet” can’t avoid shining their investigative flashlight on America’s most beloved sales/marketing institution. Here is a quick “taste” of the episode to come as we share our cold open. Stay tuned for the full episode coming soon! Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebook as 'Scandal Sheet' or on Twitter @scandal_sheet.
Mar 07, 2023•2 min•Ep. 51
A deliciously sappy and romantic movie from 1943? It unexpectedly, became very popular, made boatloads of money, and won multiple Academy Awards. One of the hundreds of undistinguished movies the Hollywood factories churned out each year -- so why do we still remember this one? Clever pro-war propaganda in an isolationist US? Celebration of female prostitution? Civil rights ground-breaker? Ironic, deadpan comedy? All of the above? Then in 1947, with the Cold War in full swing, everyone involved ...
Feb 13, 2023•56 min•Ep. 50
Most of what you heard from the mainstream media on the very recent airline meltdown is total BS! Our co-host, Ellie, a pilot for a major commercial airline, shares the REAL STORY behind what actually happened. First, with the massive winter storm over Christmas week, and second, when the FAA computers shut down all traffic. Our music is composed, preformed, and produced by John Hoekstra. youtube.com/channel/UC2Gon6qb9ar07BP0hsNPXdA. On SoundCloud: @user-363005792 Please reach out to us at conta...
Jan 22, 2023•26 min•Ep. 49
Your favorite founding co-host for both the “From The Cheap Seats” and “Scandal Sheet”podcasts – KASSIA - has started a new podcast called “Unburied Books”. We are sharing one episode with you here. Kassia and her co-host Dylan were featured on an episode about author Kurt Vonnegut on Scandal Sheet we did last year. That turned out to be one of our most popular episodes in 2022. Kassia and Dylan’s new podcast will cover every book in the NYRB Classics, a series of underrated but exemplary fictio...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 48
Our listeners’ favorite clips from the year that was! Catch up on topics you may have missed and go back and listen to the full episode. Entire plant-based food episode with food expert, Susan Greeley: https://spoti.fi/3in0pPo Scandal Sheet’s co-founder, Kassia Oset, is featured and has a new podcast, “Unburied Books”, which she hosts with Dylan Cuellar. Find it on Apple: https://apple.co/3QnwJ0T or wherever you listen to your pods. Great listen for literary fans! Kassia and Dylan were also gues...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 47
Already worn down by the baking, decorating, shopping, present-wrapping…and your barely sustained grimace of around-the-clock merriment? Well, your friends from the SCANDAL SHEET podcast are here to help. Listen my children and you will hear of the 12 best scandals of 2022! Believe it or not, a celebrity is not immune from misery. Their troubles are likely far worse than yours (and more $$$). And hearing about their well-earned woes just might restore that hint of a genuine smile to your holiday...
Dec 18, 2022•52 min•Ep. 46
Ernest Hemingway, many scholars say, was the greatest American author of the 20th century. Were you forced to read this author in high school? Did you love or hate that assignment? (BTW- I hated him at age 17). But who was this guy actually? He was awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, a very rare two-fer for any author. In both his books and personal life, he often appeared to cultivate a highly publicized, ultra-masculine image. But is that his real story? His classic works often reveal ...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 45
Join several of our regular guests and contributors for this Thanksgiving Day quiz show. It’s both fun AND educational. We cover the Mayflower voyage, the Pilgrims at Plymouth, their indigenous neighbors, the first Thanksgiving harvest celebration (which - spoiler - participants at the time didn’t believe was that big a deal), the Macy’s Day Parade, and the current American holiday menu. Try to guess the questions yourself! Please reach out to us at contact@scandalsheetpod.com, find us on Facebo...
Nov 22, 2022•17 min•Ep. 44
Doctors are telling everyone to reduce their animal product intake. But can any omnivore resist a juicy burger? Big Science has given us a solution. Plant-based facsimiles of beef, pork and chicken have become a multi-billion dollar industry. Legit? Your hosts drill deep with food expert, author, and television personality, SUSAN GREELEY. Both informative and entertaining – you’ll fall in love with this guest. Connect with Susan at susangreeley.com. Buy her book on amazon: https://bit.ly/3EmglJX...
Nov 10, 2022•31 min•Ep. 43
Our HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Everyone has marginally heard of these witch trials. But do you REALLY know what went on in this tiny New England town?? YOU DON’T! We bring you documented evidence that you have probably never heard before. Were the witches tripping on a hallucinogenic substance, unbeknownst to themselves? You’ll find out about that fact and many more in this spooky and entertaining call back to 1692 -- which resonates, in surprising ways, to our present day social and political circumsta...
Oct 27, 2022•51 min•Ep. 42
Doctors are telling everyone to reduce their animal product intake. But can any omnivore resist a juicy burger? Big Science has given us a solution. Plant-based facsimiles of beef, pork and chicken have become a multi-billion dollar industry. Legit? We host a bi-costal, simultaneous, blind tasting session of the traditional Burger King beef Whopper and its plant-based cousin, the Imagine Whopper. Featured tasters are Ellie’s husband, Paul and previous guest, Joe Duffus of the Government Accounta...
Oct 13, 2022•41 min•Ep. 41
On the occasion of a new biography being released in early October, we wanted to revisit this early episode that covers the same material. Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, best-selling author, and international television star, unexpectedly commits an apparent suicide at age 62 - at the very zenith of his fame. How could this possibly happen? And what lessons for us lie beneath this Shakespeare-esque tragedy? Our guest in this episode, is notable, professional grief/loss consultant, Maureen Des...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 40
Are cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, a sham – or the future of global exchange value? Should we hunker down with the US dollar, the Euro, the Chinese Yuan, gold, or silver? OR…should we look to the future? Your hosts dive deep on this controversial subject, as we interview a cryptocurrency expert, EZRA VAZQUEZ-D’AMICO. Ezra works for the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance, BBB’s charitable, non-profit arm. BBB WGA is the U.S.’s leading charity evaluator. Ezra helped found a...
Sep 16, 2022•46 min•Ep. 39
In addition to pools, beaches, and outdoor BBQs, nothing defines summer more than its ferocious, damaging, and deadly storms. We interview an old friend, Rob from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a founding member of our frequent guests, the Met’s Mob. Rob was witness to America’s largest and most destructive hurricane on record, as it struck New York City. HURRICANE SANDY. Its 10th anniversary is next month. With his unique and legendary wit, Rob shares his personal story, that of the larger c...
Sep 04, 2022•48 min•Ep. 38
Since the 1975 film, “Jaws” broke every box-office record, sharks became America’s favorite, summer terror. While Caribbean/Gulf sharks in New England waters were pure fiction 50 years ago…that is not the case today. Recently, there has been an explosion of unprecedented shark sightings and attacks in North Atlantic waters. Are these predators truly man-eaters trolling our beaches for a human buffet? Or, are they mostly minding their own business and simply following their food sources migration...
Aug 15, 2022•25 min•Ep. 37
Like everyone, the Scandal Sheet staff desires a needed break from serious topics. So our version of a vacation is to send our co-host, Ellie, to an all-expense paid trip to one of America’s favorite destinations – a theme park. Back in 1955, Walt Disney made a crazy investment that everyone on Wall Street advised him not to do. He put every dime he had on the line and held his breath. It was an early theme park called, “Disneyland”. Despite dire projections, it paid off a million times over and...
Jul 29, 2022•30 min•Ep. 36
The forecasted demise of the American labor movement may have been a tad premature. After 4 decades of steep membership and influence decline, unions are attempting a reboot in so-called “progressive” companies, such as: Amazon, Starbucks, Apple, and Google. So, what IS a labor union and why should those of us not in a union care? Co-host Ellie, a commercial airline pilot and current union member, helps us understand how a modern union works, the benefits today’s non-union workers enjoy as a res...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 35
The new super majority goes for it! They flex their judicial muscles and overturn 2 giant precedents in less than a week, both in 6-3 decisions. We let other pods debate the partisan politics. Our goal is to understand the underlying judicial logic in these decisions and what it may portend for other important precedents going forward, which now appear vulnerable. We are again joined by listener fav, New York “Super Lawyer”, David Grover, of the firm David and Fensterstock to provide legal analy...
Jun 30, 2022•51 min•Ep. 34
For those who missed it, we wanted to give listeners the opportunity to hear this May episode before we publish a fresh follow-up on the Court next week. In this episode, we review the circumstances of a leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case – which became the actual opinion on June 24. Then everyone went nuts! We are again joined by New York “Super Lawyer”, David Grover, of the firm David and Fensterstock to provide legal analysis. NOTE: we let other podcasts debate th...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 33
With the recent release of a feature-length documentary, we look back on the tumultuous life and career of one of the bestselling authors of the late 20th century, KURT VONNEGUT. Mostly revered - but also criticized - his “postmodern” approach to fiction, beginning with his groundbreaking novels, “Slaughterhouse 5” and “Breakfast of Champions”, profoundly changed the way audiences, around the globe, experience stories today, in any media. We welcome back our millennial, co-founding co-host, Kass...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 32
On the occasion of a Congressional Hearing last week – the first in 50 years – UFOs are back in the national spotlight. You don’t have to listen to the entire hearing on CSPAN, as we have the most important 5 minutes here. BONUS: We replay our hilarious and informative UFO Episode from last summer, “UFOs: Unrelenting Freaking Obstruction” (15:47 mins). Founding co-host, Kassia, is featured in both the cold open and in the bonus replay. Our music is composed, preformed and produced by the genius ...
Jun 04, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 31
On the occasion of a Congressional Hearing last week – the first in 50 years – UFOs are back in national attention. You don’t have to listen to the entire hearing as we have the most important 5 minutes here. Keep your ear out for the full episode soon! In this cold open we have our dream team preforming for us. Kassia, our founding cost, is featured, as well as co-host Ellie, and our music composer, John Hoekstra. What could be better?
Jun 02, 2022•6 min•Ep. 30
On the occasion of a rare leaked opinion, we take on the United States Supreme Court. What did the women/men in black do to us? Well, turns out plenty. We are again joined by New York “Super Lawyer”, David Grover of the firm David and Fensterstock to provide legal analysis. Enjoy! ...or weep, whatever seems appropriate. Special appearance by founding co-host, Kassia! If you wish to reach David Grover, for legal assistance: 212-527-7575, DGrover@GroverFen.com . Our music is composed, preformed an...
May 22, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 29
Listeners have demanded and we will now deliver. We cover the 'big' Court, Scandal Sheet style. Full episode on the way that you will all love. Please stay tuned! This clip is a merely a satire for the the purpose of our pod. That said, suicide is no joke. If you, or anyone you know, is experiencing thoughts of suicide. Please call the national suicide prevention hotline at 800-273-8255. Thank you.
May 20, 2022•4 min•Ep. 28
After a 14 year absence from public office, America’s favorite Alaskan, recently announced she is now running for Congress. Time magazine’s 2010 pick as one of the 100 most influential Americans, the former Alaskan Governor, experienced meteoric fame in 2008. After her unsuccessful run as VP on the John McCain Presidential ticket, she never left the spotlight. Since then, she’s had her own reality TV show, 2 bestselling books, a multi-year commentary gig on Fox News, and much more. Our 20-someth...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 27
